Improvement in gate-hinges



.UNITED STATES PATENT GEEIGE.

JOHT H. STONE, OF CHAPEL HILL, TEXAS.

IMPROVEMENT IN GATE-HINGES.

Specification forming part of Let-ters Patent No. 137,972, dated April 15, 1873; application tilt-d March 10, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN H. STONE, of Chapel Hill, in the county of Washington and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Gate-Hinges; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of the hinge closed, and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the hinge open.

Similar letters of reference in the accompanying drawing denote the same parts.

This invention has for its obje-ct to provide an improved means for fastening gates to hinges, designed to supersede the use of screws for the same purpose, and afford a facility in the application of the hinge not hitherto attained. To this end the invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts which I will now proceed to describe.

forks E to form orifices for the pivot D, which passes through both said orifices and the in termediate bar A, and has a head and is kept in place by a nut at its lower end. The other end of the strap G is also notched for the Ieception of the bar A, and its forks F extend entirely across and outside of said bar, and are curled at their extremities in a similar manner to form orifices for the reception of a removable pin, G', which passes through both said orifices outside of the bar A, and thus binds the stra-p, with its inclosed portion of the gate, to the bar A.

By removing the pin G the strap G may be swung off from the bar A with ease, thus greatly facilitating the removal of the gate from the hinge for repair or other purposes. This method of connection dispenses with screws, and renders it a very easy matter to fasten a gate to the hinge.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is- The combination of the bar A with the strap G having notches in its ends to receive said bar, the curled forks E `F, the latter extending across and outside of the bar A, the pivot D, and removable pin G', substantially as and for the purpose described.

Witnesses: JOHNII. STONE.

J. K. STONE, L. H. OGBURN. 

